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Last reply Jul 17, 2008 · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Saga ofa Fallen tree

I limb fell on my neighbor's property this weekend He says he heard it hit the roof and slide into the yard It is currently on the ground and one end has knocked a hole in my fence. The pickets in the fence are facig in toward my property.

I see no broken limb in my trees and i do see one on his property. He insists that the limb came from my property and that I not only must pay to have it removed but that he should choose who does it. So far he has spoken to my wife twice---both times within a minute or so of me driving off.

I want to keep pace in the neighborhood but I don't care for how he went about this. He is now saying I have another limb over his house and he wants that cut off I agree with that I would be happy to have that removed before something happens but this is ridiculous.

any suggestions?

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Bob Haller

Jun 30, 2008

call your insurance agent and smile.........

if a tree in your yard blows into your neighbors yard and even flatens his home, its his problem./

it becomes his property as it crosses the property line

I had a tree limb do that and hit my neighbors car, he was out of luck and had zero comprehensive insurance. it was a junk car, right after that the engine blew and it went to the junk yard...

the only exception......

if your informed the tree is a hazard. someone comes and says hey your tree is dying, it could blow over and flatten my home...

if it does your on the hook........

now cooperating with your neighbor is always best, neighborhood wars are bad.

but call your insurance and ask, then tell your neighbor its not your problem.

then offer to help him clean up.......... and perhaps trim the overhanging branches.

but those are his responsiblity too.

when a tree overhangs a property line, the property owner it overhangs is responsible, and can prune as they wish,

HD MM

Jul 1, 2008

Bob Haller said:
call your insurance agent and smile.........

if a tree in your yard blows into your neighbors yard and even flatens his home, its his problem./

it becomes his property as it crosses the property line

I had a tree limb do that and hit my neighbors car, he was out of luck and had zero comprehensive insurance. it was a junk car, right after that the engine blew and it went to the junk yard...

the only exception......

if your informed the tree is a hazard. someone comes and says hey your tree is dying, it could blow over and flatten my home...

if it does your on the hook........

now cooperating with your neighbor is always best, neighborhood wars are bad.

but call your insurance and ask, then tell your neighbor its not your problem.

then offer to help him clean up.......... and perhaps trim the overhanging branches.

but those are his responsiblity too.

when a tree overhangs a property line, the property owner it overhangs is responsible, and can prune as they wish,

Bob is exactly right. My wife works for an insurance company in the property division. She said the same thing. You are not liable "unless you were notified previously that it was a hazard". Most property claims aren't as tricky as car collisions. Meaning, there is no one person at fault. If the damage is on his property, his home owners insurance should take car of the cost to repair his house and lawn. If the fence is on your property, then your insurance will take care of that.

Skyhi

Jul 1, 2008

HD MM said:
Bob is exactly right. My wife works for an insurance company in the property division. She said the same thing. You are not liable "unless you were notified previously that it was a hazard". Most property claims aren't as tricky as car collisions. Meaning, there is no one person at fault. If the damage is on his property, his home owners insurance should take car of the cost to repair his house and lawn. If the fence is on your property, then your insurance will take care of that.

Thats correct with a small exception: If the tree was dying/had dead branches all over it and a reasonable person would have known the risks it posed, then you potentially could be negligent and liable for damages.

From a practical standpoint, however, proving this is in court would be so expensive that it wouldn't be worth it for your neighbor/his insurance company to do....just tell him to let his insurance handle it.

As far as the branch that is growing over his house: As long as its healthy, he should bear the cost of having it removed.

Peter Parker

Jul 1, 2008

Skyhi said:
Thats correct with a small exception: If the tree was dying/had dead branches all over it and a reasonable person would have known the risks it posed, then you potentially could be negligent and liable for damages.

From a practical standpoint, however, proving this is in court would be so expensive that it wouldn't be worth it for your neighbor/his insurance company to do....just tell him to let his insurance handle it.

As far as the branch that is growing over his house: As long as its healthy, he should bear the cost of having it removed.

Legally you might be right about him being liable for that but frankly if he would stop trying to get me to remove the limb I would be happy to remove the limb that might be a hazard.

wainwright

Jul 1, 2008

Geronimo said:
I limb fell on my neighbor's property this weekend He says he heard it hit the roof and slide into the yard It is currently on the ground and one end has knocked a hole in my fence. The pickets in the fence are facig in toward my property.

any suggestions?

First, take pictures - lots of pictures. Buy or borrow a high pixel digital camera with optical zoom and take pictures of everything.

The branch
Closeups of the end where the branch broke
The broken branch stub in the neighbor's tree
The neighbor's roof (any debris or torn shingles?)
The hole in your fence
Your intact trees

Make sure you take a couple wide angle shots showing where everything is relative to each other. And transition shots showing that the closeup of the tree is actually your neighbor's tree.

Next, call your insurance company and let them know.

Finally, sit back and wait. If he drags you into small claims court, you have enough evidence to win the case and possible get his rear end into serious trouble.

Bob Haller

Jul 1, 2008

just give him a copy of the law..........

then explain you will help clean up the downed limb but doubt its yours, you are doing it to be neighborly.

same with the overhanging limb, offer to split the cost..

its fare more than he deserves or is legally entitled too

Peter Parker

Jul 2, 2008

I spoke to him. He will get rid of the tree. At tghe same time he will get quotes for the fence (VERY MINOR) and the limb over his house. We will split the cost of the fence and I will pay to remove the limb over his house but I obvisouly can decide who removes the limb and repairs the fence.

I suppose I could have made him pay for it all but this keeps peace in the neighborhood and frankly the tree is mine.

TBoneit

Jul 17, 2008

It all sounded to me as if he had someone at a tree service that was going to pad the bill and do a kick back in $$ It also sounded as if he was angling for a free new roof. It sounds suspicious that he came over twice right after you left to me too. If I'm wrong then apologies for my misunderstanding.

Is your tree shading his house in the summer and not your house? I think I would remove the whole thing and let his cooling bill go up.

Since he was claiming that the branch came off of your tree I would want a statement from the tree service you hire to the effect that they observed no missing limbs of that size on your tree when they came to do the pruning. A simple case of CYA. Don't forget to have them check out the whole tree for any problems. Rot, bad crotches etc.

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reubenray

Last reply Today at 10:36 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Laptop Shutting Off When On Battery?

Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.

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arlo

Today at 10:09 AM

A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.

dishstaller

Today at 10:36 AM

arlo said:
That's all I got.

That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks

TRG

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Starlink Router question

I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

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b4pjoe

Saturday at 2:12 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.

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HipKat

Saturday at 11:07 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc

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Foxbat

Sunday at 12:44 AM

TRG said:
…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.

harshness

Sunday at 11:46 AM

If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Foxbat

Today at 10:27 AM

Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92AtfTLge4

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Jimbo

Today at 12:37 AM

Not Rodney, but a laugh ...

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dishstaller

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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.

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Last reply Today at 10:17 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

At least 64 dead in Spanish passenger train collision

Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:24 AM

dishstaller said:
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.

dishstaller

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Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.

The safest seat to sit on in a train

Safety experts have shared top tips on train safety after a fatal railway crash in Spain killed 69 people, including where the safest place is in an emergency.

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